LinuxHelp reviews PC-BSD, the (100% compatible) variant of FreeBSD aimed at the desktop, and concludes: "All in all, PC-BSD is an OS which has a bright future in the desktop market provided the developers provide more variety of software or at least equivalent to those found in the FreeBSD ports." Screenshots included to keep our younger readers happy.

If you read the installation manual, you'll find that installing FreeBSD is dirt simple. Just select what you want installed, and start installation. Then it'll ask for a root password, an IP address, and basically that's it, just reboot the system.